Praise for Shahidul Zahir

Haunting and apocalyptic ... a literature of the future - Siddhartha Deb

Arresting ... they amplify our sense of what fiction can do - Amit Chaudhuri

Unforgettable - Jerry Pinto

Short, pithy, compact ... unsettling the present and casting a dark shadow on the future - Rakhshanda Jalil, The Wire

A rare gift ... Zahir synthesises hard-hitting social realism with a surge of surrealist paranoia to forge a style that keeps the reader on tenterhooks. - Somak Ghoshal, Mint

Casts a spell that leaves you wide-eyed, like a child listening to stories of faraway places - Dipanjan Sinha, The Hindu

Shahidul Zahir(1953–2008) completed his post-graduation at the University of Dhaka andthe American University, Washington, D.C., and joined the civil servicesin Bangladesh. He is best known for his novella, Jibon O Rajnoitik Bastobota (1987). Shahidul Zahir's oeuvre includes the short story collections Parapar (1985), Dumurkheko Manush O Onyanno Golpo (2000), and Dolu Nodir Haowa O Onyanno Golpo (2004), the novels Shey Raate Purnima Chhilo (1995) and Mukher Dike Dekhi (2006), and the novella Abu Ibrahimer Mrityu (2009).

V. Ramaswamy has translated Subimal Misra's The Golden Gandhi Statue from America: Early Stories, Wild Animals Prohibited: Stories, Anti-Stories, and This Could Have Become Ramayan Chamar's Tale: Two Anti-Novels, Manoranjan Byapari's novel The Runaway Boy, and Memories of Arrival: A Voice from the Margins by Adhir Biswas. His translation of Shahidul Zahir's Life and Political Reality: Two Novellas was published in 2022.